Hey all I have no idea what I’m doing here trying to set up a Lemmy instance. I’ve made simple servers before but nothing like the setup needed for this especially surrounding email verification.
I’m like 10 tutorials deep and on day 3 of trying to figure out what is going on with Postfix. There are so many words and acronyms being thrown around I don’t even know what I’m looking at anymore let alone knowing what the right questions to ask would be.
Very likely I’m going to nuke my droplet this weekend to make sure I have a fresh start with no half-baked solutions competing with each other. Would someone be willing to set up a time with me this weekend on Discord or something and baby step me through how to get this thing up and running?
I think I have this figured out. I’m going to wait until tomorrow when I have a friend online who can double check for me that everything is good, but your comment and other people telling me to use Gmail I think got me to where I need to be. Granted I had to redo my instance and server entirely because I mangled my first one so bad it wouldn’t even load the page… But I think I’ve got it figured out now. Thank you so much for this explanation and example config file